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by Bart Hazen Boom Ends Season with National Title Lars Boom (Rabobank) has ended his 2011/12 cyclocross campaign with his sixth consecutive national title. In Huijbergen, Boom was too strong for Thijs van Amerongen (AA Cycling Team) and the surprising Niels Wubben (AG2R – La Mondiale). Twan van den Brand (WV Schijndel) and Thijs Al (AA [...]
Helen Wyman (Horizon Fitness Racing Team) successfully defended her British national champion’s jersey Sunday in Ipswich with a win over last year’s runner-up Nikki Harris (Young Telenet-Fidea), who finished 56 seconds behind the six-time national champion. Annie Last finished another two seconds in arrears for the bronze. In the men’s race, Ian Field (Ac Lanester [...]
Julien Taramarcaz (Sunweb-Revor) beat Simon Zahner (Française Des Jeux) by just 10 seconds to take the Swiss Cyclcoross National Championship in Beromünste. Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld rider Christian Heule, the defending champion, finished third, 26 seconds behind the winner. In the women’s race, Jasmin Achermann successfully defended her 2011 champion’s jersey with a win over Katrin Leumann, who [...]
Three-time world champion Hanka Kupfernagel (Horizon Fitness Racing Team) took another national title Sunday at the German Cyclocross National Championships in Kleinmachnow, finishing 38 seconds ahead of Trixi Worrack and 1:18 in front of Sabrina Schweizer for the Elite women’s win. In the men’s race, Christoph Pfingsten (Cycling Team De Rijke) and Philipp Walsleben (Bkcp [...]
Aurelien Duval (Telenet-Fidea) took the tri-color jersey from defending French national champion Francis Mourey (Française Des Jeux) in a close sprint from a five-rider group that was together until the end of the final lap Sunday in Quelneuc. Duval nipped Mourey and Steve Chainel (AA Cycling Team) by just three seconds to take the win [...]
Current world champion Zdenek Stybar (Quickstep Cycling Team) crushed the competition to take his sixth Czech national title Sunday in Unicov. Stybar finished 1:36 ahead of Radomír Simunek Jr. (Bkcp – Powerplus) and 1:38 in front of Karel Hnik (Telenet – Fidea). With two-time defending champ Katerina Nash (Luna) sitting out the women’s race, Martina [...]
John Wilson, who heads up the successful Oregon Junior Cyclocross Series and Oregon High School Cyclocross Series, brings some perspective to Junior racing across the country. For an in-depth look at the health of cyclocross, check out “Growth Spurt,” Kenton Berg’s excellent article in Cyclocross Magazine Issue 13. by John Wilson Ever wonder how popular [...]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – After simply riding the competition off his wheel Saturday and finishing with a whopping 1:42 gap over second place, Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) had a much bigger battle on his way to winning Sunday’s Chicago Cyclocross Cup New Year’s Resolution race. Saturday’s rain was replaced by Sunday’s snow and howling winds, but the ubiquitously [...]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – The rain went away, but snow and wind showed up in its place Sunday for the second day of the Chicago Cyclocross Cup New Year’s Resolution races at Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomington. Sue Butler (River City Bicycles-Ridley) seized the lead on the last lap of the Elite women’s race from Saturday’s [...]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In his first race back in nearly two months, Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) dropped the hammer on his competition Saturday and soloed in for the win during the opening round of the Chicago Cyclocross Cup New Year’s Resolution weekend. Trebon fired off the start line at the Hilton Indian Lakes Resort outside of [...]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Chicago Cyclocross Cup New Year’s Resolution weekend took off Saturday in wet conditions that left the course at Hilton Indian Lakes Resort a sloggy and slow mudfest for the powerful, technically sound riders. In the women’s race, Sally Annis (Crossresults.com-JRA Cycles) took the holeshot and was quickly joined at the front [...]
ESSEN, BELGIUM — Bart Wellens seized his first win of the 2011 Gazet van Antwerpen Trofee Series Saturday after a mechanical stopped Sven Nys on the final lap. Nys, the winner of last year’s race here, was leading the GP Rouwmoer until he was forced to abandon. Jonathan Page, arguably the top US racer in [...]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — The second round of UCI weekends in Southern California (SoCal) is part of the premier California Gold Crown Events presented by Shimano. The elite races started to the beat of the Dragon Dance as group from Chinatown came to share its rich history. The park is immediately adjacent to Chinatown, the [...]
FRIDAY Jingle Cross Rock, Day 1 – Iowa City, Iowa The first day of the three-day cyclocross festival at Johnson County Fairgrounds in Iowa City, Iowa, will pit many of the top North American riders against each other. Jamey Driscoll and Meredith Miller won the first day last year. SATURDAY Koksijde World Cup #3 – [...]
HASSELT, BELGIUM – Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) claimed his second straight GvA Hasselt win Saturday after an exciting finish-line duel with last year’s runner-up Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step).
by Pat Malach PORTLAND, OREGON – Aaron Tuckerman (Corsa Concepts) and Serena Bishop Gordon (Silverado Gallery/Sunnyside) capped their 2011 Cross Crusade series overall wins by adding another individual victory during the finalè Sunday on the Infield Paddock course at Portland International Raceway.
by Grant Berry LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – On a difficult course that offered little opportunity for rest, Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) once again showed her dominance by riding away with the victory. Behind her, USGP Series leader Katerina Nash traded blows with French national champion Caroline Mani until a late-race crash took Mani out of contention for the [...]
by Gregg Germer NOMMAY, FRANCE – The 34th edition of the Nommay Cyclocross race started off under very cool and overcast skies with a stiff wind. The dry course featured a good bit of up and down elevation change, but only one dismount, with a set of stairs just after the starting straight.
This weekend brings a full schedule of cyclocross across the pond and in the states. The European fun starts Friday in Belgium with the 49th running of the Jaamarktcross and continues Sunday with the third round of the Super Prestige series at the tenth Cibel Bolleke Cross in Hamme-Zogge, Belgium. This weekend’s excitement in the [...]
by Pat Malach Barton, Oregon – French mountain bike pro Julie Krasniak (Rapha/Focus) got a rough introduction to the Cross Crusades Sunday at Barton Park but recovered quickly and left the Elite women’s field behind to take race #7 of the eight-race series. In the Elite men’s event, series leader Aaron Tuckerman (Corsa Concepts), who [...]
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